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Date: | Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:06:23 -0500 |
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Peter Chong writes,
> 1. How many people remember the HP Information Access?
Hand raised on high...
> 2. How Many People who want to see same function like from
> HP3000 IMAGE Dataset to Excel or mail?
Already out there with MS Office, Crystal Reports, Speedware Esperant/Media,
and a host of other products. IA hasn't been updated in years and is on the
obsolete list.
> 5. What is worth for this kind of package cost?
No more than US$159/seat for a simple report writer component - such as
being charged for the smaller products. For more power and control, no more
than $300-350/seat. Of course, discounts for volume seat counts.
> For people who is not familiar on the Information Access
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> The GUI Package running on a PC.
> 1. Select an IMAGE Dataset on the HP3000.
> 2. Select an Items from the Dataset.
> 3. Select a Data criteria
> 4. Select a Sort.
> 5. Extract to Results to an Excel or Mail.
And one forgets - it's STILL 16-bit and written for legacy Windows.
Yes, it was a great product - in it's day. I was a proponent to keep IA
around several years ago. If people still use it, that's great because
there is a level of pain to migrate to other products... but today however,
there are far superior products on the market which can do much more - and
if one is not using IA, they would be well advised to look at these other
products on the market.
Regards,
Joe Geiser
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